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Peacock’s highly rated Olympics coverage has proven comprehensive — but not always perfect.

So to get a better sense of whether the upbeat chatter about Paris I’ve seen online matches with reality, I enlisted the help of two of my colleagues who have been breathing in all things Olympics for the past two weeks — Vulture critics Jen Chaney and Nicholas Quah. I’m based in the Pacific time zone, so I’m a little bifurcated: A lot of Olympics stuff is happening on my screens in the morning through to the early afternoon, which is when France goes to bed, and then I throw on prime-time programming or encore broadcasts through my YouTube TV account in the evening. And I think the video packages and music have all been great — though, as a purist, I’d prefer they use an old-school orchestration of the John Williams Olympics theme rather than the updated one you hear at the start of “Primetime in Paris,” which feels like it was cut from a bad Michael Bay movie.

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